Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard

Joachim -Jean -Xavier d' Isoard ( born October 23, 1766 Aix -en- Provence, . † 7/8 October 1839 in Paris) was a Christian scholar, bishop and cardinal.

D' Isoard attended the minor seminary in Aix, where he, the uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte met Joseph Fesch, but his theological training did not graduate. During the reign of terror he fled to Italy in 1794 to the court of the future King Louis XVIII. After the coup of the 18th Fructidor V he was again forced to flee to Italy. After Napoleon had established the consulate, he returned to shortly after Joseph Fesch, who was appointed to the French ambassador to the Pope, to accompany her to Rome. In its instigation d' Isoard 1803 was appointed auditor of the Roman Rota.

After Napoleon had annexed the Papal States in 1809 and Pope Pius VII sent into exile in France, followed d' Isoard him, where he beat out several offered by Napoleon offices, among others as a senator. After the liberation of the Pope at the end of Napoleon's reign, he returned to Rome and was during the rule of the Hundred Days chargé d' affaires French briefly to the Holy See.

The new king, Louis XVIII. operation without success his removal as auditor of the Rota by Louis -Joseph de Siffren Salamon.

D' Isoard, who had since 1824 dean of the Roman Rota, was dedicated in 1825 at the age of 58 years as a priest. In the consistory of June 25, 1827, Pope Leo XII him. elevated to cardinal with the title of Church St. Peter in Chains. On July 6, 1828, he was appointed archbishop of Auch; episcopal ordination took place on 11 January 1829 in Paris by Cardinal Jean -Baptiste de Latil. Charles X appointed the monarchists known 1829 Peer of France. In his time as Archbishop of Auch he took in 1829 ( election of Pius VIII ) and 1830-31 ( election of Gregory XVI. ) The conclave part, where he was commissioned in the latter so that, if necessary, to exercise the exclusive for France.

On January 15, 1833 exchanged Cardinal d' Isoard the titular church and became cardinal priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio. After he had twice rejected from Aix -en- Provence to the See of Bordeaux once, and he took the 1839 appointment as Archbishop of Lyon in place of Cardinal Fesch to. He died before he could take office, on 7 October of the same year in Paris from an inflammation of the chest.